THE RICH GET RICHER

In 1968, I bought my first car. A 65 Mustang that had been stolen and recovered. Got it (a steal itself) from the insurance company for $600. My dad cosigned a loan for me, with the stipulation that the first time I missed a payment, the car was his and would be sold. Unlike parents of today, I knew that he meant it and there would be no second chance. My payments were $39 a month. Even though still in high school, I was working 2 jobs. Evenings and Saturdays at a gas station and Sundays at a pet store cleaning kennels, feeding the animals, etc. I made $1.25 an hour at the pet shop and $1.50 at the gas station. Regular gas was 24.9 cents a gallon and high test 28.9. I don't know about the late 60's but average apartment rentals in the mid to late '70s were $150 per month.

In 2011 the average new car is $20 to $30 thousand. New pickup – $30 to $60 thousand. 3 year old used car or truck? $15 to $40 thousand. Gas is over $3.00 per gallon. Average apartment rentals? $700 to $900 a month. A 2 bedroom 2 bath house in Gainesville Fl. today? $12 to $14 hundred per month. Average wages for jobs available in the North Florida area? $8 to $10 per hour, IF YOU CAN EVEN FIND ONE. Of course that's if you're not a professor at UF or a doctor, or a lawyer.

I think you can do the math for yourself. The American middle class has been declining for at least 15 to 20 years. And falling dramatically the last 5 to 10. Meanwhile, the number of millionaires and billionaires has skyrocketed. We are returning to the days of the robber barons. You remember studying about the robber barons in school, right? The super rich industrialists whose factory workers put in 12 hours a day 6 days a week and still couldn't put shoes on their kids feet? The same robber baron families who still control a huge chunk of the American economy? You know, the Rothchild, Rockefeller, Heinz, Armstrong etc. families. Not only do they own the companies, they now own the banks as well.

The question is: why is this happening? The answer, as I've said before, is simply outright greed. The greed of the robber barons spawned the union movement. Over the years, outright greed drove the unions into decline. They kept demanding more and more, even to the point of putting companies, and therefore themselves, out of business. Now the pendulum has swung the other way again. The rich are now super rich and the working man is again struggling to feed his kids.

THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF WHY THE “HUMANISTS” ARE COMPLETELY WRONG.
Which topic (secular humanism) I will discuss in the next post.

Be patient, I'm building background for the solutions.
I remain,
Dumb Farmer